People That Matter
Cool pictures by great photographers and of great people.


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Miles Davis and his wife Francis after his release on bail from The Tombs in Manhattan. Photo by Stanley Hall, in 1959.
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If I had to choose one single musician for his artistic integrity, for the incomparable originality of his creation and the grandeur of his work, it would be Bud Powell. He was in a class by himself. - Bill Evans Pictured: Bud Powell at the New York Jazz Festival in Downing Stadium, Randall’s Island. Photo by Lisette Model.
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John Coltrane, 1963.
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life: The regal Ella Fitzgerald, backstage before singing at a “Birthday Salute” in honor of JFK at Madison Square Garden, New York, May 19, 1962. See more photos here.
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captainentropy: Louis Armstrong in London.
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Charles Delaunay (jazz expert and author) and Thelonious Monk, 1954. Photo by Marcel Fleiss.
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Miles Davis at the North Sea Jazz festival in The Hague, by Rob Bogaerts in 1984.
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women-in-music: Abbey Lincoln.
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Miles Davis at the Schiller Hotel in Amsterdam, April 1960.
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Chet Baker in Milan, Italy in 1962.
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